Tombtown livens up Web as home of the living impaired; 3-D VR Graveyard fetes expired celebs, aging baby boomers.SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz, city, United States Santa Cruz (săn`tə kr  z), city (1990 pop. 49,040), seat of Santa Cruz co., W Calif., on the north shore of Monterey Bay; inc. 1866. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1997--What do Plato, Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, Fr. Jeanne D'Arc (zhän därk), 1412?–31, French saint and national heroine, called the Maid of Orléans; daughter of a farmer of Domrémy on the border of Champagne and Lorraine. , Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (də vĭn`chē, Ital. lāōnär`dō dä vēn`chē), 1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, b. near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany. , Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart and the guy in your office who just turned 50, all have in common? Answer: They are all "entombed Entombed, or entomb, may refer to:
Aceldama potter’s field; burial place for strangers. [N. T.: Matthew 27:6–10, Acts 1:18–19] Alloway graveyard where Tam O’Shanter saw witches dancing among opened coffins. [Br. Lit. at one of the most unusual, entertaining and educational Web sites ever to hit Cyberspace. Tombtown -- located at www.tombtown.com -- opens its gates this week for new customers, both dead and alive. Visitors can explore the final resting places of colorful celebrities, authors, artists, scientists, military men, heros, villains and others from recent and ancient history. "Notable residents of Tombtown are also being joined by the still living who have one foot in the grave," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Michele Weaver, the Santa Cruz, Calif.-based virtual reality programmer who created Tombtown, the web's first 3-D interactive cemetery. "We have a number of internees who have just turned 40 or 50 and have been presented by their friends with virtual resting places -- just in case." Weaver, president of Terraformers, a three-year-old virtual reality Web site development firm, said the idea for Tombtown came while researching historical figures for an educational project. "We realized there wasn't anywhere online where people could commemorate their friends, loved ones or favorite personalities. Then we extended the concept to include the 'over-the-hill' crowd looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. unusual gifts," she said. "My online headstone amazes and confuses everyone who sees it. They don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. whether to laugh or cry," said J. Nelson Richardson of Bakersfield, Calif., one of first 'living' 50-year-old residents of Tombtown. Tombtown uses the latest interactive VR technology from Superscape Inc., which provides the free online plug-in viewer required for either Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer Web browsers for Windows. For orders, Tombtown accepts major credit cards by secure server, telephone or fax. See its Web site for ordering information. Tombtown -- located at http://www.tombtown.com -- is produced by Terraformers, Builders of Virtual Worlds. Located near Santa Cruz, Calif., Terraformers is a leading provider of commercial, educational and entertainment 3-D, interactive Web sites and can be reached at http://www.terraformers.com . CONTACT: Terraformers -- Builders of Virtual Worlds Michele Weaver or Knox Richardson, 800/468-9887 michele@terraformers-usa.com knox@terraformers-usa.com |
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